Annenberg Back Home From Hospital

Published 9:00 pm, Tuesday, April 9, 2002

Retired publishing magnate and philanthropist Walter H. Annenberg has returned home after more than two weeks in a hospital.

After recovering from pneumonia, the 94-year-old former ambassador went back to his Rancho Mirage home Tuesday afternoon, said Kathleen Hall Jamieson, dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.

Forbes magazine lists Annenberg, who created Seventeen magazine and TV Guide, as the world's 87th richest person with $4 billion.

Annenberg was ambassador to Great Britain during the Nixon administration. He has given more than $1 billion to educational and medical causes.

Beneficiaries of Annenberg's giving include the hospital that treated him here, Eisenhower Medical Center, which received a $25 million gift from the Annenberg Foundation in December for expansion efforts.